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* ManipulativeBastard: It's implied she lured Indra to her location speficially so she drowns, making it easier to integrate herself with Indra's body. If Indra's consciousness dies, Amashilama has her body for herself to use. If she survives, she could manipulate her to her own ends, which is exactly what happens.
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The first Rusalki Trace encounters on Sudra, who guides him through most of the game.
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The first Rusalki Rusalka that Trace encounters on Sudra, who guides him through most of the game.
* AmbiguouslyRelated: To [[spoiler:the Kazakh expedition from ''Axiom Verge 2'', as their rapid evolution in The Emergence, the marine-life look of their submarines, and her Slavic-coded manner of speech suggest that she might be one of the Kazakhs or a descendant]].
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* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: She lied to Trace about being brought in from the past to stop Athetos when he is his clone instead, but overall she comes off as more well-meaning than Elsenova.]]
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* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: She [[spoiler:She lied to Trace about being brought in from the past to stop Athetos when he is his clone instead, but overall she comes off as more well-meaning than Elsenova.]] Elsenova. It's also implied that she's using the Rusalki as a way to gain access to a [=PatternMind=], which Elsenova and Veruska are aware of]].
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* WasOnceAMan: In ''VideoGame/AxiomVerge2'', it is ''heavily'' implied that [[spoiler:the robotic instance of Indra left alive at the end of the game eventually becomes Ophelia. Her new body's face as shown in the credits is extremely similar to Ophelia's appearance, and is last seen seeking Drushka's help to go upstream - notes in the first game state that Drushka is the only one who trusts Ophelia.]]
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* WasOnceAMan: In ''VideoGame/AxiomVerge2'', it is ''heavily'' implied that [[spoiler:the robotic instance of Indra left alive at the end of the game eventually becomes Ophelia. Her new body's face as shown in the credits is extremely similar to Ophelia's appearance, and is last seen seeking Drushka's help to go upstream - notes in the first game state that Drushka Ophelia is the only one Rusalka who trusts Ophelia.]]Drushka trusts]].
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* NiceMeanAndInBetween: She's the meanest of the Rusalki trio, being rather blunt to Trace and killing Trace without hesitation when he stops being compliant with the Rusalki. Notes between her and Veruska also show her expressing annoyance with Ophelia's current plan.
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* TranquilFury: When Trace refuses to go along with the mission upon witnessing the death of Athetos' aborted clone, Elsenova demonstrates this as she calmly retorts to Trace's question of how the Rusalki can force him to keep going by "killing" him using the nanogates within his body.
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* TerseTalker: She's shown to be fairly to-the-point in both her conversations with Trace and in the notes written by her.
* TranquilFury: When Trace refuses to go along with the mission upon witnessing the death of Athetos' aborted clone, Elsenova demonstrates this as she calmly retorts to Trace's question of how the Rusalki can force him to keep going by "killing" him using the nanogates within his body.
* TranquilFury: When Trace refuses to go along with the mission upon witnessing the death of Athetos' aborted clone, Elsenova demonstrates this as she calmly retorts to Trace's question of how the Rusalki can force him to keep going by "killing" him using the nanogates within his body.
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: She's the nice one of the Rusalki trio, being nothing but cordial to Trace and urging him to avoid angering Elsenova when she kills him.
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* AxCrazy: Implied by Elsenova to be quite dangerous and bloodthirsty despite her seemingly benevolent appearance, which seems to be hinted at by her macabre poetry [[spoiler:and it's heavily hinted that Oracca's already bad mental condition was in fact made worse by Veruska creating dream algorithms for her where she's being killed over and over.]]
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* AxCrazy: Implied by Elsenova to be quite dangerous and bloodthirsty despite her seemingly benevolent appearance, which seems to be hinted at by her macabre poetry [[spoiler:and it's heavily hinted that Oracca's already bad mental condition was in fact made worse by Veruska creating dream algorithms for her where she's being killed over and over.]] She also delights at the idea of killing Ophelia once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she's no longer useful to her and Elsenova]] and asks her to save Ophelia for her when the day comes]].
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: She's the in-between of the Rusalki trio, being pleasant in her dialogue but also [[AxCrazy delighting in creating depictions of gruesome murder]].
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* DefectorFromDecadence: She was the only Rusalka to side with Athetos, a choice for which she paid with her life. When Trace encounters her remains, there's a gaping hole in her head with torn components sticking out. While it's mentioned by Elsenova that Rusalki fought using remotely controlled drones, it is heavily implied that Katrahaska was actually killed by Ophelia herself.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: She was the only Rusalka to side with Athetos, a choice for which she paid with her life. When Trace encounters her remains, there's a gaping hole in her head with torn components sticking out. While it's mentioned by Elsenova that Rusalki fought using remotely controlled drones, it is heavily implied that Katrahaska was actually killed by Ophelia herself.herself, [[spoiler:given Ophelia's experience being on the receiving end of the [=GateBreaker=]]].
* BlackBossLady: She's Indian instead of Black, but still fits the trope as the cunning CEO of [[MegaCorp Globe 3]] who prefers to deal with her problems directly, even if it puts her at risk.
* CloneAngst: Largely avoided after Indra is trapped in the drone, as she believes she'll easily regain access to her body. When this turns out not to be the case, and that her original body still also considers herself Indra, she starts questioning who exactly she even is. At the end of the game, after the original Indra sacrifices herself to stop Amashilama, the survivor decides that Indra is dead, and she is someone new.
* CloneAngst: Largely avoided after Indra is trapped in the drone, as she believes she'll easily regain access to her body. When this turns out not to be the case, and that her original body still also considers herself Indra, she starts questioning who exactly she even is. At the end of the game, after the original Indra sacrifices herself to stop Amashilama, the survivor decides that Indra is dead, and she is someone new.
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* CloneAngst: Largely avoided after Indra is trapped in the drone, as she believes she'll easily regain access to her body. When this turns out not to be the case, and that her original body still also considers herself Indra, she starts questioning who exactly she even is. At the end of the game, after the original Indra sacrifices herself to stop Amashilama, the survivor decides that Indra is dead, and she is someone new.
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* CloneAngst: Largely avoided after Indra is trapped in the drone, as she believes she'll easily regain access to her body. When this turns out not to be the case, and that her original body still also considers herself Indra, she starts questioning who exactly she even is. At the end CulturedBadass: She's a noted fan of the game, after the original Indra sacrifices herself to stop Amashilama, the survivor decides that Indra is dead, and she is someone new.Shakespeare.
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* GrandTheftMe: After the early portions of the game, Amashilama hijacks Indra's body, leaving her stuck in her drone form. While she eventually gains the ability to shift back to a humanoid form, she never recovers her original body again.
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* GrandTheftMe: After the early portions of the game, Amashilama hijacks Indra's body, leaving her stuck in her drone form. While she eventually gains the ability to shift back to a humanoid form, she never recovers her original body again.again, with her original self dying in the [[FantasticNuke Breach Bomb explosion]].
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* TyphoidMary: Not addressed in the game at all, but revealed by examining game files. Once the drone upgrade is collected, when Indra's drone form touches or interacts with any human NPC on Kiengir or wildlife in Emergence, they are "infected", with the humans gradually turning into miniature versions of Xedur (the first boss of ''Axiom Verge'') and Emergence wildlife becoming larger and hostile. Whether this means Indra somehow carried Athetos' pathogen out of the Breach centuries before it was created or something else entirely is the cause is left completely unknown, as are the implications for the Emergence society she joins at the end of the game.
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* TyphoidMary: Not addressed in the game at all, but revealed by examining game files. Once the drone upgrade is collected, and after visiting the Breach for the first time, when Indra's drone form touches or interacts with any human NPC on Kiengir or wildlife in Emergence, they are "infected", "infected" - with the humans gradually turning into miniature versions of Xedur (the first boss of ''Axiom Verge'') and Emergence wildlife becoming larger and hostile. Whether this means Indra somehow carried Athetos' pathogen out of the Breach centuries before it was created or something else entirely is the cause is left completely unknown, as are the implications for the Emergence society she joins at the end of the game.
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* BigBad: Amashilama and her desire to [[ApocalypseHow destroy A'ansur to "liberate" the Worldstream]] make up the primary conflict of the sequel.
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** His comments about how the Rusalki would [[HeKnowsTooMuch kill Trace if he told him too much]], and the "infection" mechanic in ''Axiom Verge 2'', suggest that he may not have unleashed the pathogen onto Sudra but claimed he did to Trace to [[ThanatosGambit goad him into killing him as part of a greater scheme]].
** Likewise, his appearance in TheStinger should the player achieve a low completion time or a high completion percentage - does he represent Trace's mind fighting to resist Veruska's [[LotusEaterMachine mind world]], or did Athetos's death allow him to become an Apocalypse Arm so he could influence Trace?
** His comments about how the Rusalki would [[HeKnowsTooMuch kill Trace if he told him too much]], and the "infection" mechanic in ''Axiom Verge 2'', suggest that he may not have unleashed the pathogen onto Sudra but claimed he did to Trace to [[ThanatosGambit goad him into killing him as part of a greater scheme]].
** Likewise, his appearance in TheStinger should the player achieve a low completion time or a high completion percentage - does he represent Trace's mind fighting to resist Veruska's [[LotusEaterMachine mind world]], or did Athetos's death allow him to become an Apocalypse Arm so he could influence Trace?
* BigBad: He's the primary antagonist of the first game, although [[AmbiguousSituation his actual villainy is ambiguous]].
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* GracefulLoser: After putting up one hell of a fight and losing, there's no cursing, epic speeches of revenge or VillainousBreakdown to be witnessed...Athetos simply acknowledges that he lost, bearing no malice towards Trace.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Athetos' justification for wiping out Sudrans. They possessed fantastic technology [[EvilLuddite whose use they completely abandoned in accordance with their newfound religion,]] but they also made sure they do not allow any outsiders to use it either, branding it as heresy. In response, Athetos wiped them out so he can freely use their technology.
* NotTheIntendedUse: Interestingly, this may be the case for his ''life support tank''. ''Axiom Verge 2'' shows machines meant to convert someone into an Apocalypse Arm that look an awful lot like his life support tank.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: If his statements are to be believed, Athetos attempted to research Sudran technology and the Breach itself in order to bring that accumulated knowledge to Earth, and solve all of its problems. However, Sudrans being extremely xenophobic fundamentalists who treated the technology around them as sacred relics that shouldn't be tampered with, have opposed him at every turn. Exhausting every option, Athetos settled onto the FinalSolution and created a deadly pathogen that wiped out the entire Sudran civilization, while horribly mutating the remaining stragglers. [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AxiomVerge2'' throws this into question; Hammond notes that Trace Prime was ''against'' bringing any technologies from upstream worlds to Earth due to the dangers they presented, although it is possible that he simply changed his opinion on this during his time spent on Sudra.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Athetos' justification for wiping out Sudrans. They possessed fantastic technology [[EvilLuddite whose use they completely abandoned in accordance with their newfound religion,]] but they also made sure they do not allow any outsiders to use it either, branding it as heresy. In response, Athetos wiped them out so he can freely use their technology.
* NotTheIntendedUse: Interestingly, this may be the case for his ''life support tank''. ''Axiom Verge 2'' shows machines meant to convert someone into an Apocalypse Arm that look an awful lot like his life support tank.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: If his statements are to be believed, Athetos attempted to research Sudran technology and the Breach itself in order to bring that accumulated knowledge to Earth, and solve all of its problems. However, Sudrans being extremely xenophobic fundamentalists who treated the technology around them as sacred relics that shouldn't be tampered with, have opposed him at every turn. Exhausting every option, Athetos settled onto the FinalSolution and created a deadly pathogen that wiped out the entire Sudran civilization, while horribly mutating the remaining stragglers. [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AxiomVerge2'' throws this into question; Hammond notes that Trace Prime was ''against'' bringing any technologies from upstream worlds to Earth due to the dangers they presented, although it is possible that he simply changed his opinion on this during his time spent on Sudra.]]
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* FlunkyBoss: His boss battle has him summoning and controlling three {{attack drone}}s to protect the Breach Attractor's power source, quickly replacing them if Trace breaks them.
* GracefulLoser: After putting up one hell of a fight and losing, there's no cursing, epic speeches of revenge or VillainousBreakdown to bewitnessed...witnessed. Athetos simply acknowledges that he lost, bearing no malice towards Trace.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Athetos' claimed justification for wiping out Sudrans. They possessed fantastic technology [[EvilLuddite whose use they completely abandoned in accordance with their newfound religion,]] but they also made sure they do not allow any outsiders to use it either, branding it as heresy. In response, Athetos wiped them out so he can freely use their technology.
* NotTheIntendedUse: Interestingly, this may be the case for his ''life support tank''. ''Axiom Verge 2'' shows machines meant to convert someone into an Apocalypse Arm that lookan awful lot like his identical to the life support tank.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: If his statements are to be believed, Athetos attempted to research Sudran technology and the Breach itself in order to bring that accumulated knowledge to Earth, and solve all of its problems. However, Sudrans being extremely xenophobic fundamentalists who treated the technology around them as sacred relics that shouldn't be tampered with, have opposed him at every turn. Exhausting every option, Athetos settled onto the FinalSolution and created a deadly pathogen that wiped out the entire Sudran civilization, while horribly mutating the remaining stragglers. [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AxiomVerge2'' throws this into question; Hammond notes that Trace Prime was ''against'' bringing any technologies from upstream worlds to Earth due to the dangers they presented, although it is possible that he simply changed his opinion on this during his time spent onSudra.]]
Sudra... or was making up his supposed motivations so Trace would try to kill him]].
* GracefulLoser: After putting up one hell of a fight and losing, there's no cursing, epic speeches of revenge or VillainousBreakdown to be
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Athetos' claimed justification for wiping out Sudrans. They possessed fantastic technology [[EvilLuddite whose use they completely abandoned in accordance with their newfound religion,]] but they also made sure they do not allow any outsiders to use it either, branding it as heresy. In response, Athetos wiped them out so he can freely use their technology.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: If his statements are to be believed, Athetos attempted to research Sudran technology and the Breach itself in order to bring that accumulated knowledge to Earth, and solve all of its problems. However, Sudrans being extremely xenophobic fundamentalists who treated the technology around them as sacred relics that shouldn't be tampered with, have opposed him at every turn. Exhausting every option, Athetos settled onto the FinalSolution and created a deadly pathogen that wiped out the entire Sudran civilization, while horribly mutating the remaining stragglers. [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AxiomVerge2'' throws this into question; Hammond notes that Trace Prime was ''against'' bringing any technologies from upstream worlds to Earth due to the dangers they presented, although it is possible that he simply changed his opinion on this during his time spent on
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Amashilama saves Indra's life and guides her through the early portion of the game, but the moment she is able to move Indra's consciousness into a drone, she hijacks her body and leaves her stranded. When Indra finally tracks her down, she spends the entirety of the ensuing boss fight treats Indra in a holier-than-thou, smug manner. Though this is ''after'' she has read Indra's thoughts and saw how she mistreated her employees and neglected her daughter back on Earth.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Somewhat downplayed; Amashilama saves Indra's life and guides her through the early portion of the game, but the moment she is able to move Indra's consciousness into a drone, she hijacks her body and leaves her stranded. When Indra finally tracks her down, she spends the entirety of the ensuing boss fight treats Indra in a holier-than-thou, smug manner. Though this is ''after'' she has read Indra's thoughts and saw how she mistreated her employees and neglected her daughter back on Earth.Earth; when she initially took over Indra's body she seems genuinely regretful and apologizes to her for misleading her.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Amashilama saves Indra's life and guides her through the early portion of the game, but the moment she is able to move Indra's consciousness into a drone, she hijacks her body and leaves her stranded. When Indra finally tracks her down, she spends the entirety of the ensuing boss fight treats Indra in a holier-than-thou, smug manner.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Amashilama saves Indra's life and guides her through the early portion of the game, but the moment she is able to move Indra's consciousness into a drone, she hijacks her body and leaves her stranded. When Indra finally tracks her down, she spends the entirety of the ensuing boss fight treats Indra in a holier-than-thou, smug manner. Though this is ''after'' she has read Indra's thoughts and saw how she mistreated her employees and neglected her daughter back on Earth.
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* CloningBlues: Goes through this at the very end [[spoiler:after he discovers he's the clone of a man who committed genocide against an entire alien civilization.]]
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* CloningBlues: Goes CloneAngst: He goes through this at the very end [[spoiler:after he discovers he's the clone of a man who committed genocide against an entire alien civilization.]]civilization]].
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* CloningBlues: Largely avoided after Indra is trapped in the drone, as she believes she'll easily regain access to her body. When this turns out not to be the case, and that her original body still also considers herself Indra, she starts questioning who exactly she even is. At the end of the game, after the original Indra sacrifices herself to stop Amashilama, the survivor decides that Indra is dead, and she is someone new.
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* CloningBlues: CloneAngst: Largely avoided after Indra is trapped in the drone, as she believes she'll easily regain access to her body. When this turns out not to be the case, and that her original body still also considers herself Indra, she starts questioning who exactly she even is. At the end of the game, after the original Indra sacrifices herself to stop Amashilama, the survivor decides that Indra is dead, and she is someone new.
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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The Lamassu statue that acts as its mouthpiece was created so it wouldn't frighten the Sagiga.
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